Archive for the 'Food' Category

when you think of dining in marina south, what comes to mind immediately would likely be cheap steamboat buffets. but did you know there is also a fine-dining restaurant in the same area? welcome to pier eleven, a fusion mediterranean seafood restaurant at the pier [...]

as sinful as it is, satay (meat skewers) is one thing that i can never say no to. the place where i get my regular fix of chicken satay is the best satay stall at lau pa sat. besides the fact that it serves the best satay i’ve ever had (in singapore), the open-air dining is what keeps me coming back for more [...]

most of you faithful blog readers already know what my favorite dessert is. it’s either chocolate mousse or the dessert that i most frequently blog about — chocolate lava cake. after i had slammed délifrance for having some very questionable lava cake on their menu [...]

i’m not exactly a fan of noodle dishes. but recently, a colleague introduced me to the famous pontian wanton mee and i was sold! since then, we’ve been having this colorful dish at least once a week! wanton mee is a type of chinese dish with noodles (mee) and dumplings (wanton) [...]

graze at rochester park. this restaurant needs no introduction. i have raved about it time and again, and named it in my famous list as the best restaurant i visited in the whole of 2006. this time round, i brought along two very important persons with me [...]

i am sure many of you would be familiar with mr. teh tarik at far east square. it’s the little pushcart stall with the green roof that sells all kinds of teh (tea). people would sit around on wooden stools to enjoy their drinks [...]

something’s brewing in the local indonesian food scene with the recent sprouting of numerous food outlets, most notably at lucky plaza. even with the advent of new competition, pagi sore, a long-established indonesian restaurant at far east square, is still cooking up a storm after all these years! [...]

as promised, here’s the last of my 3-parter series on unique mooncakes. you’ve seen champagne truffle mooncakes as well as rainbow-colored ones. now here are some with really interesting shapes besides the conventional round ones! [...]

the commonest mooncakes that we see during the mid-autumn festival are typically round or square in shape, with either a baked brown crust or snow-skin exterior. then in 1994, raffles hotel created the innovative and highly sought after champagne truffle mooncakes [...]

the mid-autumn festival, or moon festival if you prefer, is here again! of course, what’s moon festival without mooncakes right? therefore over the next 3 days, i would be featuring some unique and yummilicious mooncakes [...]